Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Elias Ymer will play each other in the qualifications of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 1:30 pm on COURT 4. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elias Ymer who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elias Ymer is the pick to win this match.
Elias Ymer -> 1.83
Pierre-Hugues Herbert -> 1.85

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Prediction and head to head Pierre-Hugues Herbert vs. Elias Ymer

There is no head to head record between Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Elias Ymer since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Pierre-Hugues Herbert

Pierre-Hugues Herbert

4 - 2win/loss

Hard

4-2

I Hard

0-0

Rank
278

High
36

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2026	17-18	5-5	5-8	5-3	2-2	0-0
2025	27-27	1-5	8-11	15-8	3-3	0-0
2024	33-31	3-5	8-11	19-12	3-3	0-0
2023	26-22	2-4	5-4	16-11	3-3	0-0
2022	18-15	0-0	2-5	10-7	6-3	0-0

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Ranked no. 171, Herbert reached the qualifications after defeating Aleksandar Vukic 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, Herbert had a good straight sets win against Vukic (6-4 6-4). During the match, Herbert scored 70 points vs Vukic’s 57. Herbert was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Regarding the service games, Herbert blasted 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Pierre-Hugues Herbert was pretty efficient on serve to win 88% (30/34) of his 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Pierre-Hugues broke Vukic twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).

Herbert has winning record in the last 10 years having won 52% of his matches (229-209). 3-2 on hard in 2026. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Herbert has a compiled 41-54 match record in the last years on hard.

The French player has an aggregate 3-2 win-loss record in 2026, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Doha

Doha

Herbert's Record

Elias Ymer

Elias Ymer

4 - 4win/loss

Hard

4-3

I Hard

0-1

Rank
197

High
105

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2026	19-20	11-12	2-3	0-1	6-4	0-0
2025	36-32	12-8	16-20	7-3	1-1	0-0
2024	24-32	7-15	6-9	8-7	3-1	0-0
2023	42-41	10-13	24-17	7-10	1-1	0-0
2022	39-32	12-11	20-15	5-4	2-2	0-0

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Ranked no. 185, Ymer got to the qualifications after beating Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-3 6-5 ret..

In the qualifications against Basilashvili, Elias had a free pass after Basilashvili retired on a 6-3 6-5 . scoreline.

Ymer has a composed 4-3 win-loss record in 2026, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Doha

Ymer's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Herbert and Ymer played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Herbert has played 1 set(s) less than Ymer (2 vs 3). However, it is interesting to notice that they played the same amount of games (20). Herbert scored 30 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Swede scored 30 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Herbert managed to score 4 aces . Ymer blasted 4 aces . Herbert won 88% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Ymer won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.

How they played the important points

The French player broke his opponent twice with a 22% conversion rate. Pierre-Hugues pretty effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 4 break points. The Swede broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Elias conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Pierre-Hugues
Herbert

1:0

Elias
Ymer

Rank

278

High

36

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Rank

197

High

105

Win Loss

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17 - 18

19 - 20

5-5

Hard

11-12

5-3

I Hard

0-1

5-8

Clay

2-3

2-2

Grass

6-4

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